Chapter 1132 is typical
After nightfall, the checkpoints set up in the Niuski Mountains in the Xinbodo area are much more lively than during the day. People who enter the forest to hunt monsters and beasts during the day also return to the checkpoints one after another. Most of them are more or less injured, and some people are even left in the forest forever.
Although the Xinboduo area will regularly clear surrounding monsters to reduce the risk of monster attacks in the entire area, after each clearance, some monsters will still stubbornly continue to hide in the cleared area. Unless the monster's activity area is in the core area of the Xinboduo area, these monsters that have not been completely cleared will be left to hunters and mercenaries to deal with.
These monsters can avoid the removal of the army in Xinboduo area, and some can even fight with the army and special departments in Xinboduo area before escaping. All of them prove their own strength. Unlike other monsters, they are more wiser, and even hidden some monsters formed by extraordinary people. For example, the monster entrenched in the forest around this checkpoint is likely to be a monster after the mutated by the extraordinary people or family clans.
For ordinary people, monsters are just monsters. No matter what the monster was before, it is just one thing now, that is a monster.
But for hunters, mercenaries and official departments specially formed to eliminate monsters, the monsters that appear after the fog disaster are actually divided into many species. Most people are used to dividing them according to their race, such as divided into three categories: wild beasts, extraordinary creatures and monsters transformed by humans.
More than 99% of the monsters in these three categories are those beast monsters. Because the reproduction power of wild beasts has increased exponentially after the fog disaster, the group of wild beasts has increased explosively, and the number of mutated monsters has also increased rapidly. Even if the human civilized society tries its best to hunt these beast monsters, or even hunts groups of beasts that have not yet mutated from the root, it still cannot stop the growth of wild beast monsters.
If someone can make a complete monster distribution map, they will find that whether it is the Viron Continent, the Mosan Continent, or even the Minsk Continent, all the towns in civilized countries have been surrounded by groups of wild beasts and monsters. It is no exaggeration to say that the world after the fog disaster is a world of wild beasts and monsters.
If these wild beasts and monsters were not more likely to devour other wild beasts and monsters according to their instincts to enhance their own strength, perhaps the entire civilized world, except for a few core city-states, would have long been swallowed up by the endless wave of wild beasts and monsters.
Although there are so many beast monsters and so terrifying, for human society, there is no need to worry about these beast monsters for the time being. It only needs to deal with the monster tide that will happen every time.
What really poses a huge threat to human civilized society are those monsters mutated by extraordinary creatures and humans. Most of these monsters still retain the wisdom before mutation and even become smarter. They do not act like those beast monsters and still follow the beastly nature of the past, and their attack methods are traceable. Their behaviors and ideas are disordered and chaotic, and their attack methods are not fixed, and they even know how to avoid danger.
These monsters do not like to devour other monsters. They are more willing to devour humans. It seems that they can extract things that are useful to them from the human body. Therefore, even if these monsters account for less than one percent of the monster group in the entire world, their threat to human society is far greater than those wild beasts and monsters.
Among these two types of monsters, the number of monsters mutated by extraordinary creatures is even smaller. Most of them like to entrench in fixed habitats and active areas. As long as they do not enter that area, or their active areas do not transfer, ordinary people will not encounter danger.
But the monsters mutated by humans are not the case. Some of them even pretend to be normal humans and sneak into human society, silently hunting the ordinary humans around them.
These monsters have very powerful camouflage ability. Before they start to attack the surrounding humans, they are almost in danger of being exposed. Among these human mutant monsters, those mutant relatives are the most difficult to expose.
Because these mutant relatives can not only perfectly transform the form of monsters and humans, but can even disguise themselves as clergy through their own power, but also retain most of the human wisdom, memory and even behavior. Some monsters still get married in human society, form families, etc.
For example, the primary hunting mission on the billboard in the deep mountains is to hunt a monster hiding in human society and disguised as a clergy. This monster has extremely strong lurking ability. After being discovered, it can avoid the pursuit of special departments of the Bodo government and escape into the deep mountains to hide, which undoubtedly shows the power of this monster.
The reward for this monster has been increased several times in recent months, making it one of the highest rewards in Xinboduo area. The content of the reward has changed from killing to capturing alive, and even the latest content has been changed to just providing the correct position of the monster to obtain this bounty.
Also attracted by the huge bounty, a large number of hunters and mercenaries came to this checkpoint located in the deep mountains, and searched for the whereabouts of the monster in the deep mountains every day.
However, these hunters and mercenaries have been searching for many days, but they have not been able to find any trace of the existence of this monster, so some people doubt whether the monster is in the deep mountains and forests of this area.
Faced with the doubts of hunters and mercenaries, the Xinbodo area gave a very positive answer, saying that the monster was still in that area, but it did not explain why the monster did not escape to other areas.
If the Xinbodo government only released such news, it would not make the hunters and mercenaries completely believe it. But then the Lord of the Sky actually sent their holy warriors, senior priests and sacred guards to the checkpoint, and entered the mountains and forests every day to search for the whereabouts of monsters. Only then did they completely believe that the monsters were still hiding in this area.
The reason why the Lord of the Sky was so concerned about this monster that he even agreed to some requests from the Dodd group and sent people to the mountains to hunt this monster was entirely because the monster pretended to be a senior priest of the Lord of the Sky, and it was not just an ordinary missionary priest, but a priest who could perform the magical skills of the Lord of the Sky.
If it wasn't a trap set by a special department when it was preying on humans, it might still be perfectly disguised as a priest and admired by everyone.
A priest who can perform divine magic tricks was actually mutated by a man-eating monster. This incident was a very heavy blow to the reputation of the entire Sky Lord Church. Although this did not shake the foundation of the Sky Lord Church, the subsequent impact was very far-reaching. If this matter was not resolved in time, sooner or later, there would be a crack in the tower of Sky Lord’s faith.
This is because this incident has caused the public to have extreme distrust of the Sky Son Clan, one of the core forces of the Sky Lord Church. Many people even believe that the Sky Lord’s clan of this sect are all human-eating monsters.
Before the Year of the Mist Disaster, almost all the clans were no different from monsters in the eyes of ordinary people and even some secret forces. However, with the gradual return of the gods and the rapid mutation after the Year of the Mist Disaster, people began to understand the special clans, which were more aware of the clans, and were able to distinguish them from monsters.
Compared with those unowned relatives who are still regarded as monsters, those who believe in gods still exist are completely in another position. Most of them are regarded as sons of God by ordinary people. The church also recognizes their status and even gives them the right to match their identities. Even some church rights subjects have been transferred to these sons of God, such as the Church of the Sea God, the Church of the Sky, etc.
This is not because the top leaders of these churches are willing to give up their rights and hand them over to others. Instead, with the return of the gods, the power of these gods' family is rapidly increasing every day, and they can even obtain extremely clear oracles directly from the gods. No matter how strong the top leaders of the church are, when facing the pressure of the gods, their strength will all turn into invisible.
Although this disguised priest incident can hit the reputation of the sons of God in the church, and the senior clergy whose rights are divided within the Lord's Church will be very happy, the premise is that this blow cannot affect the entire Lord's Church in the Sky. No matter how much they fight for power and profit, they are very clear about their foundation.
Therefore, the incident of monster disguising priests within the Lord of the Sky was extremely unified. All the sects in the church cooperated vigorously. The candidates to form the team were two sons of gods, two senior priests, four sacred warriors who had been baptized by gods, and eighteen sacred guards. Such a powerful lineup was very rare. Some people laughed at that if such a lineup was cooperating with the believers of Lord of the Sky, they could even launch a large-scale religious war.
Originally, everyone thought that with such a powerful lineup, the monster would be arrested and killed soon, but the result was completely beyond everyone's expectations. This team of elites from the Sky Lord Church had been in the mountain for dozens of days, but they had never completed the task and even lost three sacred guards.
Although the church people did not say how they lost the three sacred guards, it is not difficult to guess from the content revealed by their words and deeds that they must have encountered their own targets. Not only did they fail to successfully capture the target, but several sacred guards died at the hands of the targets.
Although the warriors on the checkpoint are not allowed to drink, a tavern is set up inside the checkpoint for hunters and mercenaries. At night, the hunters and mercenaries who return to the camp will concentrate in the tavern to exchange information obtained during the day, or replenish the lost staff and form a new team. In addition, some people will teach the daytime harvest with the merchants who have been here for a long time.
Most of the hunters and mercenaries here are ordinary people who have received combat training. If people like them encounter monsters in the past, they will have a way out. However, with the weapons and equipment developed by the Dodd Group for various monsters, these ordinary people will also have a try after encountering monsters.
Usually, these hunters and mercenaries dare not act rudely to the church people, but as the hunting team sent by the church suffered a great loss, they were very embarrassed every time they returned to the camp, which made these hunters and mercenaries who had long left life and death aside, gradually lost their awe of the church. Under the influence of alcohol, they even dared to blatantly ridicule some unbearable things in the church.
After the camp was set up by the Fire Dancer Caravan, Leo followed some merchants from the caravan to the tavern at the checkpoint. The merchants of the caravan did not come here to drink. They mainly wanted to see if there was any chance to acquire a batch of hunting hunters and mercenaries here. As for Leo, he wanted to collect useful information from the conversation between these hunters and mercenaries.
Not long after entering the tavern, the merchants in the caravan had completed several transactions, which could be said to have gained a lot. As for Leo, he also collected a lot of information, such as the composition and classification of monsters, the reason why a team of elite members of the Sky Lord's Church were stationed here, etc.
Although these materials can be said to be publicly disclosed underlying information, for Leo, the information he needs to collect most now is these underlying information, and what he lacks the most is also these underlying information, because with the changes in the world, the lifestyle of human society has also changed completely. If you analyze things based on the previous information, there may be a huge fallacy, so he needs to build a database from the bottom layer again.
In order to be able to collect information in full, Leo will naturally say some guiding words at some point, allowing the hunters and mercenaries who are slightly drunk to say more useful content, such as the monster who can use the master of the sky magic.
Leo could understand why the rewards for monsters changed from killing to catching, because he was also very curious about why this monster was able to perform magical skills.
However, as bystanders with special emotions, the clergy of the Sky Lord Church, who also came to the tavern to relax, had other ideas after hearing Leo's conversation with the hunters and mercenaries. They felt that Leo's guided words were deliberately targeting them, and wanted to use the drunken words of the hunters and mercenaries to humiliate them and mock their incompetence.
Originally, the loss of manpower made these clergy extremely depressed. Coupled with the contempt and contempt that hunters and mercenaries intentionally or unintentionally revealed during this period, their mood was even worse.
Chapter completed!